Side Meeting : Reinforcing the Development and Implementation of the GEOCRI Introduction to GEOCRI – Concept, Implementation and Meeting arrangement Yubao Qiu Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academic of Sciences 8 Nov., 2016 @ St. Petersburg, Russia

Russia Focus – Cold Regions Earth’s Cold Region View From Northern Pole Frozen Water and Phase changing High Latitude High Altitude Russia Focus – Cold Regions PEEX

Scientific and Societal Importance Why GEO Cold Regions? Scientific and Societal Importance More than 100 countries around the world have cryospheric elements. These elements are a main source of fresh water. Cold regions are the most ecologically and environmentally sensitive areas, and changes to these areas comprehensively affect the dynamic earth system, impacting many aspects of society in all parts of the world. The cold regions of our planet influence our entire world.

Activates related to Earth’s Cold Region by domain Numbers for the activities arranged by Regions

Environmental and socio-political challenges Specific Earth observation needs and requirements Climate & Weather Biodiversity & Ecosystems International Relations & Cooperation Sustainable Development, Indigenous Communities & Traditional Practices Health Agriculture, Fisheries, Hunting & Food Water Pollution & Environmental Protection Hazards Built Environment, Infrastructure & Transport Energy Mining & Fossil Fuels Forestry Shipping Tourism

An Information Service for Cold Regions (or GEO Cold Regions), exploiting the GEOSS information system, is needed to provide easy access to observations and environmental information products by users across the globe.

GEOCRI – GEO Cold Region Initiative Aiming to share the vision of GEO to address the global environmental change, and its resulting impacts and challenges on all aspects of society, an Information Service for Cold Regions was established to broaden and share Earth observations for societal benefits, and inform the decision makers. Scope - Global Cold Regions: Including the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalaya-Third Pole, high-latitude oceans and high-mountain cold region areas GEO Cold Regions Initiative > recommended to GEO WP 2017-2019 , which is the legacy of Information Service for Cold Regions in Water SBA.

GEOCRI Mission and Objectives Mission: Develop a user-driven approach for Cold Regions information services to complement the mainly current science-driven effort, and foster the collaboration for improved earth observations and information on a global scale. Objectives Integrating, Brokering and Promoting Earth Observations over Earth Cold Regions Advocating and Practicing Data Sharing Building Community Portal and Services Strengthening Capacity building and Partnerships

GEOCRI Task and Implentation Plan Tasks: Infrastructures Monitoring Network and Data Integrating in situ and Remote Sensing Observations User Engagement and Communication Capacity Buidling and Knowledge Transfer Management and Monitoring Hierarchy structure of the activities 6 tasks: Support SAON in maintain an inventory of existing cold region EO initiative (programme, projects, organizations, network, system…) Leverage GEO’s international position to align other activities with artic Observing System efforts and SAON (GCW, INTERACT) Support observing system networks

Side Meeting’s Aim Discussion Points Reinforcing the Development and Implementation of the GEO Cold Regions Initiative (GEOCRI) Discussion Points GEO member country and POs contribution to cold regions Earth observations, especially Russian Collaboration and related GEO POs Facilitate the overall international User Engagement Users requirement and identification of users Reinforcing the Implementation Tasks through projects Involvement into the task and subtask level, open

Side Meeting’s Arrangement Introduction to GEOCRI – concept, implementation and meeting arrangement (Yubao Qiu) 10’ Understanding of the Earth’s Cold Regions 60’ - SAON (Jan Rene Larsen, Peter Pulsifer / Remotely) 12’ - WMO (Lars Peter Riishojgaard) 12’ - ESA Cold Regions Activities (Ola Gråbak / Remotely) 12’ - Comparative Study on Earth’s Three Poles (Huadong Guo, Lizhe Wang) 12’ - Mega and Super Mega Transect Concepts (Terry Callaghan) 12’ Cold Regions Earth observation activities and initiatives 70’   -INTAROS (Lasse Pettersson) 10’ -Russian Hydrometeorological University activities (Mikhail Latonin, Oleg Pokrovsky) 10’ ---------------------------------------- Coffee and Refreshments (30’) （10:30 ~ 11:00）---------------------------------------- -ROSHYDROMET/MGO activities (Viktor Ivakhov) 10’ -ROSHYDROMET/AARI activities (Alexander Klepikov) 10´ -PEEX (Tukka Petäjä, Hanna Lappalainen / Remotely) 10’ -INTERACT2 (Terry Callaghan, Hannele Savela) 10’ -GEOMAR (Heidi Kassens) 10’ Discussion and Way Forward 30’ (11:50~12:20) -GEOCRI’s Implementation Plan (Hannele Savela) 10’ -Discussion 20’ *Engagement Strategy *Russian Collaboration Restricted： 10’+2’ Questions Restricted： 8’+2’ Questions

Yubao Qiu： qiuyb@radi.ac.cn Thank you! Contact Info Yubao Qiu： qiuyb@radi.ac.cn Hannele Savela ： Hannele.Savela@oulu.fi